Best Albums of the 2000s

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91.

Stadium Arcadium 

 Red Hot Chili Peppers

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"I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album....""I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album. There are only a few that I would say are average, but the rest are above average or real good. My favorites are Snow(Hey Oh), Charlie, Desecration Smile, Tell Me Baby, and Readymade."  [+]  Reply

- Rounder89 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (7 helpful | 2 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

478 charts

Rank Score:

2,970

Rank in 2006:

9

Rank in 2000s:

91

Overall Rank:

568

Average Rating:

 73 (952 votes)

Comments:

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92.

Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 

 of Montreal

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""The Past is a Grotesque Animal" changed my perception of reality. Also it made me violently move my body parts in a rhythmic fashion. Also it's a fantastic song."  Reply

- SquishypuffDave | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

419 charts

Rank Score:

2,955

Rank in 2007:

13

Rank in 2000s:

92

Overall Rank:

573

Average Rating:

 79 (494 votes)

Comments:

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93.

Up The Bracket 

 The Libertines

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"One of the greatest albums of all time. Every track is brilliant and the album has plenty of energy."  Reply

- clarkejames94 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

485 charts

Rank Score:

2,903

Rank in 2002:

12

Rank in 2000s:

93

Overall Rank:

578

Average Rating:

 77 (681 votes)

Comments:

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94.

Rated R 

 Queens Of The Stone Age

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"This whole album is an accurate narrative of a crazy drug trip. First the fun rush (Feel Good Hit of the Summer), then the horny feeling (Auto Pilot), the height of the trip where the world starts spinning (Better Living Through Chemistry), the slow fallout along with a second wind (In the Fade),...""This whole album is an accurate narrative of a crazy drug trip. First the fun rush (Feel Good Hit of the Summer), then the horny feeling (Auto Pilot), the height of the trip where the world starts spinning (Better Living Through Chemistry), the slow fallout along with a second wind (In the Fade), and finally, the stumbling walk back home (I Think I l Lost My Headache)."  [+]  Reply

- Beef-Wellington | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (8 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

557 charts

Rank Score:

2,869

Rank in 2000:

13

Rank in 2000s:

94

Overall Rank:

587

Average Rating:

 80 (851 votes)

Comments:

33

95.

Dear Science 

 TV On The Radio

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"seriously? "fall out boyish"??? what a horrible thing to say. i dont hear it."  Reply

- The Gollux | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

521 charts

Rank Score:

2,861

Rank in 2008:

7

Rank in 2000s:

95

Overall Rank:

588

Average Rating:

 78 (651 votes)

Comments:

37

96.

Feels 

 Animal Collective

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"Oh boy, I "avoided" this band for so long, I didn't know what I was missing! This might be their best, or at the very least it best represents the band as a whole. There are the somewhat crazy, but super fun songs like Grass and Purple Bottle, and then there are the stripped down, psychedelic, so...""Oh boy, I "avoided" this band for so long, I didn't know what I was missing! This might be their best, or at the very least it best represents the band as a whole. There are the somewhat crazy, but super fun songs like Grass and Purple Bottle, and then there are the stripped down, psychedelic, sometimes borderline ambient pieces, like Bees, Daffy Duck - the latter reminds me of Talk Talk at their finest. Awesome stuff, awesome band."  [+]  Reply

- 19loveless91 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

408 charts

Rank Score:

2,848

Rank in 2005:

9

Rank in 2000s:

96

Overall Rank:

592

Average Rating:

 79 (602 votes)

Comments:

34

97.

808s & Heartbreak 

 Kanye West

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"Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was goin...""Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was going through a hell of a year (in the bad sense): he had lost his mother (to whom he was truly connected), separated from his fiancé & surrendered to alcoholism. The first impression you have when listening to this album is the state of devastation you can only assume Kanye was in during that time. It was an artist fully opening his emotions & trying to clean his soul of sadness, sorrow, anger & pain. But for the average hip hop listener of 2008, the emotions coming through the speakers in the form of AutoTune, heavy drums & electric instruments & synthesizers, was nothing they wanted from Kanye. Where were the soul samples (or even the electronic samples of Graduation), the lyrics, the rapping, that warm feeling of albums like College Dropout & Late Registration? Nowhere to be found, so the backlash this album received was enormous. But it just works so well retrospectively, comparing it to Kanye’s subsequent career. I’m not sure fans would have continued to go down the rabbit hole with him, had he stayed fully emerged in the electropop genre. But MBDTF cemented him as a true artist who was unafraid to experiment and pull things from different sounds. The truth is that this album's core aesthetic was like nothing in hip-hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. A masterpiece and a triumph of ahestetics."  [+]  Reply

- catalam1234 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

410 charts

Rank Score:

2,793

Rank in 2008:

8

Rank in 2000s:

97

Overall Rank:

605

Average Rating:

 76 (943 votes)

Comments:

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98.

Oh, Inverted World 

 The Shins

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"Unlike many, I didn't discover The Shins through the movie Garden State and the song from that movie soundtrack, New Slang (it will 'change your life' and all that). I was initially blown away by their second album Chutes To Narrow which led me on to this other excellent album of theirs. Like Chu...""Unlike many, I didn't discover The Shins through the movie Garden State and the song from that movie soundtrack, New Slang (it will 'change your life' and all that). I was initially blown away by their second album Chutes To Narrow which led me on to this other excellent album of theirs. Like Chutes, there isn't a bad tune here. It's understated production makes it less glossy in sound but a bit more cred as an indie classic. And while New Slang won't necessarily change your life, it will give you a satisfied smile which is just as important sometimes."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

469 charts

Rank Score:

2,758

Rank in 2001:

11

Rank in 2000s:

98

Overall Rank:

614

Average Rating:

 79 (693 votes)

Comments:

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99.

The Resistance 

 Muse

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"I pick this more because of the message, than it being their best album, if that makes any sense. The lyrics to this album are what sold it to me to be better than Absolution. 1-7 are great, 8 kinda sucks, but the symphony at the end makes up for it. What band has a self produced album with a sym...""I pick this more because of the message, than it being their best album, if that makes any sense. The lyrics to this album are what sold it to me to be better than Absolution. 1-7 are great, 8 kinda sucks, but the symphony at the end makes up for it. What band has a self produced album with a symphony at the end?"  [+]  Reply

- RoundTheBend | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2009

Appears in:

415 charts

Rank Score:

2,636

Rank in 2009:

6

Rank in 2000s:

99

Overall Rank:

649

Average Rating:

 70 (1,079 votes)

Comments:

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100.

Sam's Town 

 The Killers

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"What a disappointment after Hot Fuss, which I found much better. It has two great songs (Read My Mind and When You Were Young), two good songs (Bones and For Reasons Unknwon) and the rest is utterly forgettable."  Reply

- zexen47 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

435 charts

Rank Score:

2,609

Rank in 2006:

10

Rank in 2000s:

100

Overall Rank:

655

Average Rating:

 74 (833 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2000s composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2000	105	11%
2001	102	10%
2002	111	11%
2003	111	11%
2004	88	9%
2005	110	11%
2006	97	10%
2007	92	9%
2008	88	9%
2009	102	10%

Artist	Albums	%
Radiohead	5	0%
Dream Theater	5	0%
Bright Eyes	5	0%
Wilco	5	0%
Opeth	5	0%
Animal Collective	5	0%
The Black Keys	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	555	55%
	221	22%
	54	5%
	34	3%
	24	2%
	23	2%
	19	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	992	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	997	99%
Yes	9	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	994	99%
Yes	12	1%